TechCrunch has posted a series of video interviews of Roku CEO Anthony Wood. Who also happened to found Replay TV, one of the first two DVR products on the market. (Yeah, the other would be TiVo.) If nothing else, the link’s worth hitting to tally up the number and variations of “kill” and “death” in a classic Rambo-esque style. And the lede is particularly dramatic, “Meet the man who killed the television industry.” While there’s clearly a (small, but growing) number of cord cutters, neither Roku nor the DVR have yet killed the television industry. They’re doing quite fine. Not to mention, as I recall, the television industry had a hand in killing Replay TV. Having said that, I’ve been a huge fan of Anthony’s work as a satisfied owner of ReplayTV, Soundbridge, and Roku devices. In fact, we wholeheartedly recommend Roku here at ZNF… to augment pay television. Sure the landscape is evolving, and fast, but let’s keep it real.
